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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:19:43 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        Michael <mlmichael70@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to enforce password change at first login
Message-ID:  <20110330051943.GD3074@darklight.org.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D92BB33.1030201@gmail.com>
References:  <4D92BB33.1030201@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:11AM +0100, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I enforce a user to change his password at first login?
> 
> I want to set up ssh access for my friends but I don't want to know 
> their passwords. And I don't trust they will change it just because I've 
> asked to do so.
> 
> I was thinking I can create account with random password and provide it 
> to my users. Then the system would enforce password change at first login.
> 
> Any clues, please?

Something like:
# pw usermod <username> -p -1

Anyway, see pw(8).


HTH,
Yuri



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